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Data Centers

Sophisticated projects and investments require trusted advisors who are part of a powerful network and who are deeply involved in the hot topics of the industry. Hogan Lovells is your first port of call and the leading legal provider for successful realization and investments in data centers around the world.

Key contacts

Lee E. Berner

Partner
Washington, D.C.

Zenas J. Choi

Partner
Northern Virginia

Dr. Tobias Faber

Partner
Frankfurt

Ari Q. Fitzgerald

Partner
Washington, D.C.

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Representative experience

Lead counsel for Estee Lauder in a US$400m global IT infrastructure transformation, to transform Estee Lauder’s data center, collaboration, voice and data networking and IT support functions.

A data center client on its branding strategy in Hong Kong, China and the U.S.

A U.S. hardware and data center client on trade mark registrations and anticounterfeiting matters in Mexico.

Funds managed by DWS on the acquisitions of Dutch data center operators The Datacenter Group and NLDC.

Mapletree Investments on its US$1.4bn acquisition of a data center portfolio in North America from Digital Realty Trust.

Royal Mail in connection with the transfer of its two data centers to CSC and the outsourcing of its entire IT and telecommunications requirements in a 10- year deal worth in excess of £1.5bn.

A large U.S. semiconductor company on its global patent portfolio, including data center related technologies.

Assisting a global manufacturing conglomerate in connection with a US$180m outsourcing of its global IT operations, including data center, help desk, field support and voice and data networking functions.

QTS Realty Trust, a data center REIT, on the formation of a US$240m joint venture with Alinda Capital Partners to finance the development of a hyperscale data center under development in Manassas, Virginia.

Tencent on the commercial and regulatory aspects of the international launch of its Qcloud service, which involves over a dozen data centers across the world.

Equinix on its joint venture with Omantel to create a cloud and carrier neutral data center in Oman.

A syndicate of lenders on facilities for Global Switch, a leading owner, operator and developer of large scale, carrier and cloud neutral multi-customer data centers across Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Keppel DC REIT on its acquisition of a data center in the Celtic Gateway Business Park. The data center is fully let to one of largest global cloud service providers.

Du Pont Fabros Technology on its proposed purchase and redevelopment as a data center of a heavily contaminated former chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing site.

One of Europe’s leading data centers on all employment matters across Europe.

A leading global bank on establishing a data processing subsidiary in China.

TelecityGroup on the acquisition of the data center business of MedioSystems, an affiliate of the IBM Group.

A leading data center operator on the lease review of 46 leases across 6 countries for a leading data center operator.